deaf-blind

Updated: June 25, 2025

I often wonder how deaf-blind people walk as well as they do, when they can not hear their footfalls. I find walking much more difficult when on a crowded thoroughfare, or when passing a planing mill or boiler factory. The last of the trio of senses whose development compensates in large measure for the want of eyesight, is that of smell.

Kate M. Foley - Five Lectures on Blindness

You will be glad to hear that the books from England are coming now. I already have the seventh and eighth books of the "Aeneid" and one book of the "Iliad," all of which is most fortunate, as I have come almost to the end of my embossed text-books. It gives me great pleasure to hear how much is being done for the deaf-blind. The more I learn of them, the more kindness I find.

Helen Keller - The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy